Curtain rod



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- orro JOHNSON, or JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

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a plication filed February 17, 1923. Serial No. 619,728.

7 To allwhomjt may concern:

Be it known that I, O'r'ro JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 71 Pershing Avenue, Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Rods, of which the following, taken in connection with the' accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in curtain rods and more particularly to means for supporting the same.

The chief object of this invention is to provide an inexpensive and eiiicient means for mounting the curtain rod upon the casement whereby the rod can be quickly mounted and dismounted and whereby the weight of the rod functions to hold it in the mounted position.

Other objects will appear from an examination of the specification taken in connec- I tion with the drawingswhich form a part thereof and in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a casement equipped with a curtain rod embodying one form of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the case-] mentand curtain rod.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary end of the curtain rod illustrating the position it assumes when mounted for supporting the curtain. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 showing position of the rod when'being disengaged from the supports; and

Fig. 5 is a further view showinganother position of the rodwhile being removed from the support.

- Referring to the a formof this invention. The rod here i shown is of the well-known extensible type,

the ends 12 of which are bent at right angles so that the" curtainsupporting portion 13 is mounted in front of and parallel to the easement 10.. Ateach'end are provided loops 14 by which the rod is suitably supported.

Brackets 15 preferably of a. single piece, as hereshown, are employed to support the ends of the rod. Bracket 15' is preferably made in the form of a hook from a rod or heavy wire having one end 16 bent at right angles to the body of the hook and pointed so that it can be driven into the casement like a nail. The hook is coiled at 17 at the inner end of the portion 16 to stiffen it so drawings the reference numeral 10' is usedto designate a casement that it can be driven like a nail into the casement and also to provide further resilience to the hook for the purpose set forth hereinbelow. The lower end of the bracket 15 is bent upwardly to form a pocket 18 and terminates adjacent the casement. particularly to Figs. 3 and 4 it will be noted that when the end 16 is driven into the casement the tip 19 will lie against the casement and be held in that position bothby the natural tendency ofthehook and by the additional resilience imparted by the coiled portion 17. y I

The loops 14 of the rod 11 are made of sufficient size so that they can pass over the doubled lower end of the hook 15, as shown in Fig. 5. When in functioning position the lower edges of the loops 14 lie in the pockets 18 and are normally held in that position both by the weight of the curtain and by the'tendency of the bracket to lie with theloops 14 are above the tips 19 of the bracket.

The curtain rod is then swung into the horizontal position and the loops 14 are pulled down over the tips 19, as shown in Fig. 5,

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Referrin until free of the brackets; The curtain rod V is, of course, mounted upon the .bracketsby no While only one embodiment of this invenreversing this procedure.

tion has been shown and-described,-it is .ob--

-vious thatothers canbemade without departing from the spirit-and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims. V I Having thus set tection by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with'a casement ofa I forth my invention what- I claim as new and for which I desire procurtain'rodf having loops at each end and by passing the loops of said rod over the lower ends of the brackets'until above the pockets and then lowering the loops into hooks therefor, each ofsaid hooks having its brackets fixedto said casement saidibrackets having vertical pockets open at the topat the; lower ends and so formed that said cur tain rod 'can'be mounted upon said brackets i lower end bent back upon itself to form a pocket, the tip of said hook being adjacent the easement to which the hooklis secured and forming the inner Wall. of said pocket and the loops of said rod being of such dimensions that they can pass over the doubled 10 min rod consisting of a pointed upperportion et 'ight angles tooth'e body portion, a coiled portion at the inner end of said pointed portion, and a lower end bent back upon,

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oTTo JOHNSON. 

